Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-07
TO ENTERTAIN THEIR BRETHREN.
Hotel Men Of This City Getti nx Ready
Tor q Convention Next Month.

NUMBER OF Washington hotel proprietOrs met
at Wliiaros Hotel last night. The object OF their
meeting was to take some measures looking
toward the entertainment OF the Hotel Mems
MUTUAL Benefit Association, which win be in con-
vent1on In this city on the 10th and 11th of May.
ThiS association was formed In Chicago in 1879,
and was the first and only national organization
OF hotel men ever formed in the country. The
original purpose OF its founders was to make it a
medium Tor developing the personal acquaintance
feaur Was WIZ eaen Other and the
has membership of 1,O27, including many OF the
most prominent hotel men in the United States.
Mr: w. D. Garrison, manager OF the Grand Union
Hotel of New York, is the president and nearly
every State and Territory Is represented among
ard the Dsrst G. saples OF T %be
last convention was held in New York city. where
the local hotel men Wed with each other to do
vention meets in this city, the local members are
resolved that the entertainment shall not be nfe-
f0 fh n 1D nss given In New York and
composed OF Mr.. o. G. Staples, Mr. Birch, OF the
EoDltt House, and Mr.. Gilsey, Of the Hamilton
House, whose duty it will be to raise the funds
necessary and to make all other arrangements.
The Sunday Liquor Law.
KEEPERS OF EATING-HOUSES TRYING 10 ARRANGE
MATTERS TO PREVENT PROSECUTION.
AS published in Tuesdays STAR, the saloon
keepers have heretofore been permitted to keep
open their places of business where an eating bar
is attached to the drinking bar, on Sundays, and
the drawing of a curtain in front OF the drinking
bar has been sufficient to satisfy the police, but as
the law requires the room In which drinks are
sold to he closed, the officers have determined to
strictly enforce it hereafter. Since Tuesday sew
eral downtown SalOOn-keeperS have called on
at the first precinct station to see II ar
rangements could not be made by which eating sa-
looms could be kept open without being interferred
with, but that official declined to make any ar
rangement. The lieutenant has also been requested
10 VSlt certain saloons for the purpose of inspect
Ing theIn, In order that the premises might be so
arranged that no charge OF violation OF law would
be made, but this the lieutenant also refused to
no. some Sal0On-keeperS proposed that they
stretch curtains from the floor to the ceiling the
entire length OF the bar-roOm but this the police
claim, Will not answer, as the room In which the
drinking Is done Is not closed thereby. One Sa-
loOn-keeper proposed to erect q temporary frame
petition, to be put up on Sundays to hide the bar
but TINS, the police think, will not answer any
conStrue the law, they satisfied with any ar
rangement the court will decide is not violation
OF the law. The police think the only way in
which most OF the downtown saloons can carry on
buildings in such manner that 1t will not be
necessary to enter the bar-rOOm. It is likely that
some one Saio0n-keeper Will carry on his business
as usual next Sunday with curtain drawn across
the bar in order to make a test case.
CRIMINAL COURT CAsEs-This morning, in the
Criminal Court, Judge Hagner the case OF JAS. II.
Jordan, charged with having In July last used
the mail for fraudulent purposes, was called, and
he was released on personal bonds. Edward Mitch
ell, indicted with John Green for HOUSEKEEPING,
pleaded not guilty.
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